[62] This engraver was in no way related to the better-known stipple and historical engraver of the same name who flourished in the present century.
[63] Woollett was buried in Old St. Pancras Churchyard; on a plain
tombstone which marks the spot were found one day written in pencil
the two lines—
"Here Woollett rests, expecting to be sav'd
He graved well, but is not well engrav'd."
Shortly afterwards a subscription was raised, to which Benjamin West and John Boydell contributed, for the purpose of erecting the above-mentioned tablet which now stands in the West Cloister.
[64] Opie painted a life-size head of S. W. Reynolds, and of his daughter Elizabeth as "Red Riding Hood" (exhibited at the winter exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1876); this portrait of herself Elizabeth engraved in mezzotint at the age of fourteen.
[65] Father of the late E. W. Cooke, R.A.
[66] Walker engraved the portrait of Raeburn with the special purpose of proving the contrary.
[67] John Lucas, the well-known portrait painter and also engraver in mezzotint, was likewise a pupil of Reynolds.
[68] The plate of Salisbury Cathedral was engraved at Constable's expense and published in 1837 by Messrs. Hodgson, Graves and Co., for the painter. After his sudden death in the same year it was sold at Foster's, Pall Mall, in 1838, and bought in for eighty guineas, hardly the price of two proofs at the present time.
Through the kindness of Mr. Algernon Graves, the writer has had access to many manuscript notes written by David Lucas.